This Idea Must Die : Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress EPUB
by John Brockman
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The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the worlds most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.orgs 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?
Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.orgThe worlds smartest website (The Guardian)challenges some of the worlds greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating. In :
- Steven Pinker dismantles the working theory of human behavior
- Richard Dawkins renounces essentialism
- Sherry Turkle reevaluates our expectations of artificial intelligence
- Geoffrey West challenges the concept of a Theory of Everything
- Andrei Linde suggests that our universe and its laws may not be as unique as we think
- Martin Rees explains why scientific understanding is a limitless goal
- Nina Jablonski argues to rid ourselves of the concept of race
- Alan Guth rethinks the origins of the universe
- Hans Ulrich Obrist warns against glorifying unlimited economic growth
- and much more.
Profound, engaging, thoughtful, and groundbreaking, This Idea Must Die will change your perceptions and understanding of our world today . . . and tomorrow.
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- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins
- Publication Date:17/02/2015
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- ISBN:9780062374356
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins
- Publication Date:17/02/2015
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- ISBN:9780062374356